The mysterious Sappho of Lesbos is one of the most influential poets in history. Her poems--what she called her "Immortal Daughters-- ...

Classical Greek and Roman sculpture is known for its beauty and true to life detail. These sculptures were inspiration for the masters of t...

Called 'The Priest King' this iconic Harappan statue was found in Mohenjo Daro Existing several hundred years after the Varna...

At the height of communism, proof of a pre-historic class stratified society was found behind the Iron Curtain. An ancient cemetery was fou...

To start off, Arsinoe is pronounced ar-SIN-o-ay. The only reason I bring this up, is because I recently discovered that I've been prono...

Though there is archaeological evidence that people have been to Punt, there is no actual archaeological evidence of Punt itself. No struct...

Hippocrates , widely considered to be the father of modern medicine, proposed some pretty crazy hypothesis. Four humors, wandering womb, ma...

One of my giant pet peeves as a thinking person is when people try to claim that people past upheld strict codes of moral virtue, and that ...

Ancient Assyria was brutal. Warmongering and conquest was an enormous part of the culture, and women had no place in war or political leade...

Living more than 2000 years before the common era, Enheduanna was, without a doubt, one of the most important religious and political figur...